Author of Audiobooks - Van Wyck Brooks
The Ordeal of Mark Twain - Van Wyck Brooks
The Ordeal of Mark Twain - Van Wyck Brooks
- Author: Van Wyck Brooks
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
This book, published in 1920, analyzes the literary progression of Samuel Clemens and his shortcomings (which are debatable). Brooks attributes Clemens' increasing sense of pessimism to the repression of his creative spirit due largely to his mother...
The Ordeal of Mark Twain (Version 2) - Van Wyck Brooks
The Ordeal of Mark Twain (Version 2) - Van Wyck Brooks
- Author: Van Wyck Brooks
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Criticism / Writing & Linguistics
The Ordeal of Mark Twain analyzes the literary progression of Samuel L. Clemens and attributes shortcomings to Clemens' mother and wife. The Encyclopaedia Britannica says, Brooks' work "was a psychological study attempting to show that Twain had...